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hrm...well some of you may remember my first fc from this old post http://www.drifting.com/forums/showt...highlight=FC3S
well anyway it was my first car, and a great one too..it had ported engine; racing flywheel and clutch, and one hell of a kick for a near stock FC. Anyway after a while I drifted on such an impossible turn in a residential area I don't think tsuchiya himself could have completed it.
Anyway upon smashing it up bad into the curb right in front of someones house..it came to this
After going of the damage, the passenger side suspension was what we though wrecked beyond repair, you should have seen it at the actually crash site. Not only was the front suspension damaged severely, but the passenger fender area and front end area warped as well. Me and my dad both decided not to mess with it and I had to get rides with my mom everywhere until something good happened. So we called it quits on the fc for the time being.
The good thing that happened was that in about a month after the wreck my dad found a TII 1988 FC for sale for a little less then 4,500$ when we went to go look at it our minds were blown. It was modified extremely with a garret turbo and lots more, we assumed it made about 400hp + ; but also, when we bought that car the man who sold us the turbo fc gave us a 1990 NA for free...
That multicolored FC was the free one and it was about to save the life of an old friend.
Anyway after checking over and test driving the 1990 NA we got free, we noticed it was in horrible shape, and the cost to repair would not be worth it. So once again we were in a bad situation. We had to decide if we wanted to continue fixing up these cars or just let them all go, and just buy me an accord or something. Me and him both kept pondering..."why don't we just mix them to make one good car?" The question hung over us for almost a month it was getting around to be Christmas time, and I needed something to drive...my dad kept hinting that he would fix the cars before Christmas so it would be my present to have a good working car. It turns out I was wrong. I went out side to grab something out of the fc on christmas morning and there it was a beautiful corolla parked there. I was disturbed and excited I mean how many cars are we going to have out there!?
But you don't need to hear my life story here, so lets get back to the rx7s
Anyway i'll make things short just recently we have decided to rebuild the first rx7 as a full fledged track car. We had to replace everything that was broken on the passenger side suspension: brake rotor, tie rod, basically everything that held the well on was broken. I went ahead and stripped out all the interior and my dad got front a rear strut bars. We had to swap the radiator and hoses out of the 1990, and also the alternator. My dad got some cheap cosmetic stuff for it too, like a TII hood and some s5 seats. It now sits at our local tuning shop waiting to run again. If all goes well it should be ready on the 28th of march.
This car is far from over, my dad is quite serious about converting this into a pure track machine...Ill post some more news in a few months, but till then its just one hell of a boro drift machine!
well anyway it was my first car, and a great one too..it had ported engine; racing flywheel and clutch, and one hell of a kick for a near stock FC. Anyway after a while I drifted on such an impossible turn in a residential area I don't think tsuchiya himself could have completed it.
Anyway upon smashing it up bad into the curb right in front of someones house..it came to this
After going of the damage, the passenger side suspension was what we though wrecked beyond repair, you should have seen it at the actually crash site. Not only was the front suspension damaged severely, but the passenger fender area and front end area warped as well. Me and my dad both decided not to mess with it and I had to get rides with my mom everywhere until something good happened. So we called it quits on the fc for the time being.
The good thing that happened was that in about a month after the wreck my dad found a TII 1988 FC for sale for a little less then 4,500$ when we went to go look at it our minds were blown. It was modified extremely with a garret turbo and lots more, we assumed it made about 400hp + ; but also, when we bought that car the man who sold us the turbo fc gave us a 1990 NA for free...
That multicolored FC was the free one and it was about to save the life of an old friend.
Anyway after checking over and test driving the 1990 NA we got free, we noticed it was in horrible shape, and the cost to repair would not be worth it. So once again we were in a bad situation. We had to decide if we wanted to continue fixing up these cars or just let them all go, and just buy me an accord or something. Me and him both kept pondering..."why don't we just mix them to make one good car?" The question hung over us for almost a month it was getting around to be Christmas time, and I needed something to drive...my dad kept hinting that he would fix the cars before Christmas so it would be my present to have a good working car. It turns out I was wrong. I went out side to grab something out of the fc on christmas morning and there it was a beautiful corolla parked there. I was disturbed and excited I mean how many cars are we going to have out there!?
But you don't need to hear my life story here, so lets get back to the rx7s
Anyway i'll make things short just recently we have decided to rebuild the first rx7 as a full fledged track car. We had to replace everything that was broken on the passenger side suspension: brake rotor, tie rod, basically everything that held the well on was broken. I went ahead and stripped out all the interior and my dad got front a rear strut bars. We had to swap the radiator and hoses out of the 1990, and also the alternator. My dad got some cheap cosmetic stuff for it too, like a TII hood and some s5 seats. It now sits at our local tuning shop waiting to run again. If all goes well it should be ready on the 28th of march.
This car is far from over, my dad is quite serious about converting this into a pure track machine...Ill post some more news in a few months, but till then its just one hell of a boro drift machine!
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